What should you do to accommodate the next 1000 users?
You have 1000 users for an application that reads and writes files averaging between one and four
MB in size. Each user requires 24 MB of RAM. You want to add another 1000 users for this
application, and in preparation for them, you run the isi statistics command. You discover that the
average CPU utilization is 20%; aggregate throughput averages 700 MB/s and the disk Queued
average is 1.5. Your cluster currently has five X200 (12 GB RAM, 1 TB drive) nodes, uses N+2:1
protection and 1 GigE networking.
What should you do to accommodate the next 1000 users?
Which load-balancing policy will provide the most efficient client distribution?
While configuring Isilon SmartConnect, a customer has determined that their workload primarily
consists of short-lived connections, such as HTTP and/or FTP. Which load-balancing policy will
provide the most efficient client distribution?
What would be the best solution for this network configuration?
Your customer is looking for a storage solution that will be able to store seven million 3 MB files
which are written and seldom accessed. Read and write operations are both completed by a webbased application, which requires 1.3 Gbps throughput. The customer’s network has not been
upgraded in many years, so the network interfaces are 1 Gbps.
What would be the best solution for this network configuration?
Which software functionality can be used to meet this requirement?
An Isilon customer has an environment with very different workloads. They would like to assign
clients to performance tiers based on the resources needed.
Which software functionality can be used to meet this requirement?
what is the comparable feature in IsilonOneFS?
In your second meeting with the customer you ask the following questions about their current
unified SAN and NAS platform.
“Are you using an application to map users from NFS Exports to SMB shares? Is each site a
separate LDAP or AD Domain?”
What functionality are you trying to understand in their environment and what is the comparable
feature in IsilonOneFS?
which policy setting needs to be determined?
When configuring Dynamic IP Address Allocation in Isilon SmartConnect, which policy setting
needs to be determined?
you need to be prepared to answer?
You will be meeting with the Corporate Security Team as part of the implementation planning for a
new Isilon cluster deployment. The Lead Security Analyst has asked you to discuss the
Authentication Sources on your Isilon Cluster.
What customer questions regarding Isilon-supported Authentication Sources do you need to be
prepared to answer?
Which Isilon cluster component is described?
Based on the following criteria:
Spans 3 – 40 nodes
Logical grouping of drives
Automatically assigned
Intelligently distributes disks to manage performance
Which Isilon cluster component is described?
Which nodes should be added to the cluster?
Your customer has an Isilon cluster with five X400 nodes and four 72NL nodes. A SmartPools
policy moves data to the NL nodes after 60 days of inactivity. The customer wants to expand the
archive tier by at least 150 TB and would like to manage a single archive pool.
Which nodes should be added to the cluster?
which stage will a SmartPool license be required?
An Isilon customer currently has an 8-node cluster of older X-Series nodes. They are planning
several upgrades over the next three years in the following stages:
Stage 1: Add 2 X-Series nodes to meet performance growth
Stage 2: Add 4 NL-Series nodes to meet archive capacity growth
Stage 3: Add 10 New X-Series nodes as a hardware refresh
Stage 4: Remove older X-Series nodes
At which stage will a SmartPool license be required?